"So, you should know what to do now, right?"
After saying that, Su Qiao pulled Big Treasure back into the house. "It's so late already. Go to sleep, or you won't be able to get up tomorrow."
"Wait... wait... Don't go..."
"You can't leave..."
Chen Ligeng and the others were frantic. They reached out, trying to stop Su Qiao, but tonight, they were destined to spend the night trembling among a mass of venomous snakes and centipedes.
The sweat on their bodies was dried by the night wind. Whenever a snake made the slightest movement, they broke out in another cold sweat, which the wind dried again, only for more to break out. Throughout the night, they endured a form of mental torture more inhuman than anything they had ever experienced.
By dawn, they looked haggard and exhausted, their faces drained of color, their legs numb, and their entire bodies aching.
Yet even then, they still didn't dare move a muscle.
They had originally looked forward to daylight, thinking that once the sun came out, the snakes and centipedes would retreat from the light. But the reality was completely different from what they had imagined.
The snakes and centipedes were like guards sworn to defend the border to the death. They simply surrounded them and refused to retreat.
"Well, well, you're still alive."
Only after washing up did Su Qiao bring Big Treasure over to see them.
Seeing them on the verge of a mental breakdown, she felt quite pleased.
Next, she took five ropes and, with Big Treasure's help, dragged them out one by one, tied their hands, and hung them from the branches of the large banyan tree beside the lawn in front of Old Hu Er's house.
She scattered some powder beneath the tree. The snakes and